Job 41:17

17 Each is joined to the other. They are locked together and inseparable.

Job 41:17 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:17

They are joined one to another
One scale to another, or "a man in his brother" F8: which may seem to favour the notion of the whale's teeth in the sockets, which exactly answer to one another; but the next clause will by no means agree with them;

they stick together, that they cannot be sundered:
whereas they easily be, at least by the creature itself; but the scales of a crocodile are so closely joined and sealed together, that there is no parting them.


FOOTNOTES:

F8 (whyxab vya) "vir in fratre suo"; Montanus.

Job 41:17 In-Context

15 Its back has rows of scales that are tightly sealed.
16 One is so close to the other that there is no space between them.
17 Each is joined to the other. They are locked together and inseparable.
18 When Leviathan sneezes, it gives out a flash of light. Its eyes are like the first rays of the dawn.
19 Flames shoot from its mouth. Sparks of fire fly from it.
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